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Automated fruit scouting

Features

FruitScout™ Optical Scanning with a Smartphone

AFS's technology enables growers to scout individual trees, whole rows of trees, or entire blocks using smartphones.

Work that used to take hours can be done in minutes, with verifiable accuracy. The resulting insight from more data helps growers better manage their entire operation.

FruitScout™ Report

Our innovative technology conforms to customer workflows. Users can review and verify data as well as retain a visual record of growth.

The information can help growers act on timely information related to harvest yields, R&D experiments, and ongoing orchard operations.

FruitScout™ Fruit Recognition System

AFS’s proprietary computer vision technology can recognize buds, flowers, young fruit, and mature fruit, giving growers highly accurate information about orchard productivity throughout the year.

no change to workflow

Use your own smartphone on your own time to take pictures and upload the images to AFS. No added effort on your part to make sure your fruits are accurately counted.

Reports are delivered to you in spreadsheet format.

Automated fruit scouting

Use Cases

Obtain verifiably accurate, season-long records of orchard data

early fruit counts

bud deteCtion

Flower counts

Harvestable fruit and size data

Maturing fruit counts and size data

Obtain verifiably accurate, season-long records of orchard data

Tighten process controls related to crop load management

Flower counts

pre-thinning
post thinning

Bud counts (post pruning)

tree optimization

Fruit quantity & SIZING
TRUNK SIZING & IRRIGATION EFFECTIVENESS
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FRUIT counts

pre-thinning
post thinning

Yield estimation

quantity & size distribution

Tighten process controls related to crop load management

Improve data accuracy for comprehensive business risk management

Research & Development

Precision data from automation
Rapid feedback on experiments

Crop insurance

Premium optimization
Claims validation

Workforce planning

Scheduling & supply
Task definition & targets

Quality control

Early insight for market supply –
demand balancing
Cultivar-specific information
Optimize product mix and pricing

Materials cost control

Trees and hardware
Chemicals & water consumption
Packaging configurations

Improve data accuracy for comprehensive business risk management

Increase operational flexibility and process control

Access to AFS’s expanding solutions menu 
Counts to validate tree productivity by cultivar - available
FRUIT Growth rate monitoring – available
Color & ripeness - pending
Surface imperfections - pending
Threat detection (pests, diseases, nutrients) - pending
Process efficiency
Collect block-level data in minutes
Drive decisions with accurate data
Maintain control over data collection timing, frequency and quantity
Easy deployment & scale-up
Growers use own smartphones to collect data and upload to AFS
No need to schedule scouts with AFS
AFS FruitScout™️ reports via internet
No capital investment in equipment
Customized FruitScout™️ reports
Dashboard summaries & spreadsheet formats
Verifiable counts with links to tree images
Reviewable – a permanent record
Data management and retention
Trend identification and data integration
Long-term reference with season-long tree images

Photo Scout a Row

Features

FruitScout™ Optical Scanning with a Smartphone

FruitScout™ Report

FruitScout™ Fruit Recognition System

no change to workflow

Use Cases

Obtain verifiably accurate, season-long records of orchard data

Obtain verifiably accurate, season-long records of orchard data

Tighten process controls related to crop load management

Tighten process controls related to crop load management

Improve data accuracy for comprehensive business risk management

Improve data accuracy for comprehensive business risk management

Increase operational flexibility and process control

Increase operational flexibility and process control

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